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Sony expects user-generated content for LittleBigPlanet to “balloon” when the title is eventually released.
Speaking yesterday at the Games 3.0 conference in London, which is part of the London Games Festival, Jamie MacDonald, vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, said that the delayed PS3 platformer “points the way to the future of social gaming” and described it as a “landmark” title.
The servers for LittleBigPlanet, which is due out in the UK on November 5, are now online. We’ve already reviewed it, giving it a stupendous 9/10, and hearty recommendation.
Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans recently confirmed that user-generated content made using the beta version of the title will carry over into the retail release, which should ensure a healthy amount of user-generated content at launch.
MacDonald said of the hotly anticipated create-em-up: “It points the way to the future of social gaming. Inherent in its DNA is creating and sharing what you do and it allows people to share their creations, creativity, their interests with people all around the world.”
He added: “I expect the user-created levels or themes to absolutely balloon once the title is out, and I think we’ve just empowered people. In some ways it’s quite hard to guess how it will affect the industry in the long run because sometimes I think it’s going to be empowering, it’s going to be massive, it’s going to encourage people to be creative, and where that leads I’m not really sure, but I think it’s going to be really exciting. And I think we’ll see lots of people developing titles in a similar vein.
“I think LittleBigPlanet is a landmark, frankly. I think it’s one of those titles that shows a whole new way of playing and sharing.”
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